The justification of " body of volunteers from across the Movement who have
joined the Committee from various projects and who have a wide range of
experience across opportunities and challenges when Wikimedia groups gather
and formalize" indicates that *any body of volunteers* can "pilot".
At
*"Hubs, in their structure, can be seen as a variety of affiliates who
are gathering together to create something new. "*
The definition, scope, metes and bounds of *hubs* will be determined by an
independent body, such as MCDC and codified by a document such as an MC
that is agreed upon
Hi
Affcom has a conflict in this situation because hubs are not affiliates nor
are they being piloted as hubs have functioned as organisations in their
own right for many years. The word 'pilot' is disrespectful to work that
these hubs have been doing for that time. I acknowledge Affcom can
Dear all,
AffCom’s response here is to a specific Hub pilot project, not
necessarily the long-term future of Hubs, and hence the initial
statement published on July 11. AffCom is comprised of a body of
volunteers from across the Movement who have joined the Committee from
various projects
As hubs are not replacing the relationship between affiliates and affcom,
hubs purpose is to serve its community across multiple countries. I can
see the value in Affcom sharing some of its experiences but I caution
against the building of deeper power structures that widen the gap between
That's a good option but I suppose that the same Affcom structure must be
re-considered probably enlarging the number of members and diversifying
more in terms of representatives of the different stakeholders (including
maybe more people from the affiliates and chapters?).
This discussion should
Hi Wojciech,
thanks for this statement, it will definitely be helpful to have AffCom's
insights into the current affiliates network when talking about hubs. While
approval by the WMF BoT is one option, wouldn't that require a hub to be a
formal organisation? Otherwise the BoT would be involved in
